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Transformers [Blu-ray] [2007]

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Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 5051368202211
Label : Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Paramount Home Entertainment
Publisher : Paramount Home Entertainment
Release date : 2008-09-08
Title : Transformers [Blu-ray] [2007]
Audience rating : Suitable for 12 years and over
Format : Widescreen
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 2007-01-01
Region code : 0
Running time : 144
Studio : Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2007
MPN : BSL2022

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Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox Director: Michael Bay

Amazon.co.uk Review
"I bought a car. Turned out to be an alien robot. Who knew?" deadpans Sam Witwicky, hero and human heart of Michael Bay's rollicking robot-smackdown fest, iTransformers/i. Witwicky (the sweetly nerdy Shia LaBeouf, channeling a young John Cusack) is the perfect counterpoint to the nearly nonstop exhilarating action. The plot is simple: an alien civil war (the Autobots vs. the evil Decepticons) has spilled onto Earth, and young Sam is caught in the fray by his newly purchased souped-up Camaro. Which has a mind--and identity, as a noble-warrior robot named Bumblebee--of its own. The effects, especially the mind-blowing transformations of the robots into their earthly forms and back again, are stellar. p Fans of the earlier film and TV series will be thrilled at this cutting-edge incarnation, but this version should please all fans of high-adrenaline action. Director Bay gleefully salts the movie with homages to pop-culture touchstones like iRaiders of the Lost Ark, King Kong,/i and the early technothriller iWarGames/i. The actors, though clearly all supporting those kickass robots, are uniformly on-target, including the dashing Josh Duhamel as a U.S. Army sergeant fighting an enemy he never anticipated; Jon Voight, as a tough yet sympathetic Secretary of Defense in over his head; and John Turturro, whose special agent manages to be confidently unctuous, even stripped to his undies. But the film belongs to Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and the dastardly Megatron--and the wicked stunts they collide in all over the globe. Long live iTransformers/i! --iA.T. Hurley/i

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review by: letsgetitright date: 2009-06-19 rating:

Awesome Metalic Fun
When this first came out, quite frankly I wondered what all the fuss was about. Then came the DVD version and again, despite the hype, I resisted the temptation to buy it. But when we went Blu-ray I finally relented, purchased it and watched the mayhem unfold onscreen. WOW, what a spectacle. Sensational special effects dominate many parts of the film and yet they are not irritating and overblown in the way so many other block busters look. br / br /Director Michael Bay is simply a genius when it comes to this type of film. As Steven Spielberg says in the extras: Michael Bay was indeed born to make Transformers. br / br /Shia LaBeouf plays the central role very well and his parents are, umm, well, you will know what I mean when you watch it. Everyone says Megan Fox provides the film's eye candy and yet she doesn't just stand there looking pretty, she gets stuck into things. John Turturro provides a lot of light relief and stops everyone from taking things too seriously. But the real stars of this film are the Transformers themselves and the battles they have throughout the film fills the screen with awesome action. br / br /Personally I have watched this a number of times and I will probably watch it many times yet. It's brilliant fun.

review by: date: 2009-06-11 rating:

Daftly constructed underlying mechanics , but still pulls it off!
PICTURE QUALITY br /Many tout this as a show off piece for what your full HD home cinema set up can do, and while there are some very nice scenes there are also some that feature above average graininess, particularly in poorly lit scenes. The CGI moments are completely clean and every flap of metal the robots are made of can be seen while transforming, each with their own shiny sunlit smoothness. Any high contrast day time shots are also shown very strikingly eg the daytime Qatar desert scenes. Facial textures look excellent on these daylight scenes. Colours look vivid and punchy though that can vary from TV to TV. br / br /SOUND br /The sound is detailed and crisp but be aware that if you do not have a home cinema system, the sound output on this film is extremely quiet and you will be putting your TV volume ridiculously high. The output from your TV speakers may distort at some points while being too quiet in others. But plug a system into your setup and you will be treated with floor vibrating bass, and lovely clarity particularly while the transformers move and transform, the sounds that the makers have attached to these scenes are quite mesmerising. br / br /MOVIE ITSELF br /Out of all the recent comic/cartoon reinvigorations, the cube story line has to be one of the worst. What was annoying was that the original cartoon and particularly the animated movie had a tonne of base material from which a better story arc could have been made, but we got stuck with the `God' cube. If you watch the special features they make clear that they don't want the machines to `morph', they want all the mass and parts to be conserved in the robots to make it as immersed in the real world as possible but the cube completely went against that where the huge cube downsized itself into handheld one which a boy could carry under one arm and sprint! br / br /Also as many others state, the transformations are visually irritating, with too many moving parts that just make them look as if they're made of tin foil, some of the robot forms were difficult to identify as the models were just so complex in terms of the identifiable vehicle parts being scattered in minute pieces on the robot. The way they could scan any vehicle and form into it was Bays idea of how to make the transformers more believable in our world, but its just a big frustration with the film unfortunately as it just feels too `easy'. br / br /Otherwise, the film is actually very competently put together, with witty dialogue and comedic moments that gives a sense of continuous entertainment, where even in the non action scenes you remained enthralled. Bay puts his standard `rotate camera around character at waist height' to use but certainly fills the film with uniquely thrilling action sequences that keep your eyes glued to screen with minimal desire to blink! It seems apparent that the general quality of the dialogue and flow is probably attributable to the Spielberg touch and the actors deliver the scripted lines convincingly creating an overall immersive experience. br / br /OVERALL br /Entertaining enough, but not up to the story line standard that the animated movie managed to bring. It appears that while a lot of work went into the design of robots, the film suffered from a classic scenario where the producers thought that their own modern designs would be much better than the originals, but how often does that ever run true. Aside from that the film is great fun, with a well suited cast. br /

review by: date: 2009-06-11 rating:

Best film ever made
by far the best film i have ever seen best place to watch would be a cinema but next best is blu-ray the guys who give it less than five stars are crazy the guys who give it one star are on drugs

review by: date: 2009-05-28 rating:

Popcorn movie, Test disc for BD home cinema, Pure silly fun!
First up thanks to Mr P whose review influenced my ordering this disc. I'll deal with the film then the technical geek stuff. I thought the film was huge fun, very entertaining although often very silly (but I think self-consciously and tongue-in-cheek a la "Iron Man"). The performances are all pretty good at the appropriate level, and I really liked Shia Labouef who I had otherwise only seen as a slightly annoying Indy Jr in "Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull". He is funny and engaging, although I have no idea what this "channeling a young John Cusack" in the Amazon own review is supposed to be !?# This is not a P.T.Anderson or Lars von Trier film and no-one expects it to be, I hope. Just shift the brain a few gears down, or even into neutral, and fun is all but guaranteed. br / br /On the technical side: wow! Absolute reference sound and vision. It is Dolby TrueHD and not DTS, in response to a query on the comments page, and I am not quite sure what Mr P meant about LPCM, this is in my view in no way superior to TrueHD or DTS HD Master Audio and nothing to mourn for (the best PCM soundtrack I know is "Casino Royale", but the two Nolan Batman films have TrueHD soundtracks which are at the very least just as good). All images are super sharp and in best resolution, the CGI images always shine but the normal film scenes are also brilliant. This is absolutely on a level with "Casino Royale" or "Indy 4". The sound is not only crystal clear, detailed and full, but the management of surround effects is really well achieved. You really will be turning your head back to the surround speakers in near alarm at moments like the little robot sneaking around on Air Force One. And anyone here like bass? This film turns your subwoofer into a nuclear weapon. br / br /This film does not take itself at all seriously and it is not for people who take themselves seriously. But it is for people who take their home cinema technology seriously and want to see it shining at supernova levels. Buy it now!

review by: movie lover date: 2009-04-26 rating:

Excellent film but Blu Ray quality not up to scratch
This film is just as fantastic as you remembered from when you were a child. However, the Blu Ray does not do the film justice, while the CGI parts are perfect (played on a 46" sony 1080 tv) the non CGI parts appear to be slightly grainy and not of "blu ray" quality. That said, I'm still gonna get Revenge of the Fallen on Blu Ray.

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